AMERICA ONE- A.S.S. Astermine's Secret Society (Book 8) by T I Wade

Author:T I Wade
Format: epub

Chapter 14

Ceres—Wow!

“We have Ceres visual through the cockpit windows,” shouted Saturn Noble to an empty cockpit on their ‘morning’ of day sixty-nine of their flight from Mars. She had looked up from a paperback she had been given by Mayor Max as a gift when they had departed the red planet. Squinting slightly, she noticed that the dwarf planet they were aiming for wasn’t just a bright light in the distance anymore. The light had grown slightly and looked like it had substance. It took time, but slowly the others emerged from their apartments aboard ASS-One.

“You woke us up just to tell us we’re a few miles closer to Ceres?” asked her father, who arrived last.

Suzi, VIN and Jonesy were always last, as they had to decide whether they were going to put their prosthetic legs on or not. Put on the legs with the metallic shoes so they could walk around the cockpit magnetized to the metal floor, or float around without legs, which really pissed Saturn off.

As Saturn had often mentioned, it didn’t look very professional with three half bodies of the seven-person crew floating about the cockpit without legs, and sometimes not even fully dressed. She had given orders that on her watch, everybody would look as whole as possible and wear flight suits.

Unfortunately, Jonesy had found out that floating around always gave away the lack of legs, even if he was hiding the fact by wearing a flight suit. Saturn had been quite bullish about how the crew looked, for morale purposes in case the space shark was about or real aliens were spying at them from some asteroid somewhere.

Mars was asked if his wife needed therapy, and it got to the stage that he couldn’t figure out whether he was right or wrong.

“I’m so glad this is only a seventy-two-day flight,” Saturn added, looking at the motley lot. Her husband Mars’s long hair floated around like a girl’s. Martin Brusk looked the most human of all of them. She was impressed. Even for a newbie semi-astronaut, Martin always looked like he cared about his appearance. VIN, being an ex-marine, was nearly as neat as Martin. Her father was the worst. Little Mikey looked like a lost teenager, and her mother-in-law, Suzi, had slowly gone from being very neat and tidy to I-don’t-care. Saturn reckoned that the crew needed boot camp to get themselves back to looking like professional astronauts.

“You look very professional this morning, dear,” stated her mother-in-law, adding fuel to the fire.

“Of course, I’m on duty. I should look like an astronaut,” Saturn returned unhappily.

“Well, I’m not on duty, nor are the rest of us, so we don’t need to look like astronauts,” added Jonesy, taking a peek at the reason his daughter woke him up and the readouts on the cockpit console.

“Or humans,” mumbled Saturn.

They had left the orbit of the red planet forty-eight hours after Mars and Max had returned from inspecting the two bases.

Even though ASS-One was faster than any other

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